Extraordinarily heavy rains are causing extreme floods in Australia’s New South Wales and Queensland states. Some of these flooded communities were battling fires just two years ago.
Flooding peaked in Brisbane, the Queensland capital, and Australia’s third-most populous city, on 28 February. The area was inundated by 80 per cent of its usual annual rainfall in just three days.
More than 20,000 homes and businesses ended up being flooded in southeast Queensland and 13 people died.
«There is no flood event that has occurred in this part of Australia like this in anyone’s living or recorded memory,” says Australian PM, Scott Morrison.
“It’s a 1-in-500 year flood.»
Source: https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/03/10/watch-floodwaters-rise-as-parts-of-australia-receive-almost-a-year-of-rainfall
